Scott Shackelford

Associate Professor at Indiana University Kelley School of Business, Scott J. Shackelford serves on the faculty of Indiana University where he teaches cybersecurity law and policy, sustainability, and international business law among other courses, and is a senior fellow at the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research as well as a Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs Cyber Security Project. A graduate of Stanford Law School and the University of Cambridge, he has written more than forty articles, essays, and book chapters that have been published in outlets such as the American Business Law Journal, Stanford Journal of International Law, Stanford Environmental Law Journal, and the Berkeley Journal of International Law, as well as "Managing Cyber Attacks in International law, Business, and Relations: In Search of Cyber Peace" (Cambridge University Press, 2014). Professor Shackelford has also written op-eds on the topic of cybersecurity that have been published in the Huffington Post, Washington Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle, and his research has been covered by National Public Radio, The Atlantic Wire, and USA Today. Both Professor Shackelford’s academic work and teaching have been recognized with awards, including a Fulbright Award in law, Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study Distinguished Fellowship, Academy of Legal Studies in Business Outstanding Paper Award, Stanford Law School Steven Block Civil Liberties Award for Writing on Civil Rights, Indiana University Trustees’ Teaching Award for Excellence, Kelley School of Business Innovative Teaching Award, and the Campus Sustainability Award for Teaching Excellence. A frequent speaker to a variety of audiences, Professor Shackelford has presented his research on cybersecurity at diverse forums, including Notre Dame, Stanford, Australian National University, the Prime Minister and Cabinet Office of the Government of Australia, the Croatian Chamber of Commerce, NATO, the Swedish National Defense College, the International Telecommunication Union World Summit on the Information Society, the Indiana Counter Proliferation Task Force, and the Harvard Business Review.

Shall we ease into our Labor Day weekend with an absolutely repulsive video of a police detective abusing his authority against a completely innocent person for no real justifiable reason? Oh, why not?

Behold, Salt Lake City Police Det. Jeff Payne arresting Nurse Alex Wubbels in July for refusing to violate an unconscious—comatose, actually—man's rights by drawing his blood for the police without any sort of warrant whatsoever:

As the “NotPetya” ransomware attack spreads around the world, it’s making clear how important it is for everyone – and particularly corporations – to take cybersecurity seriously. The companies affected by this malware include power utilities, banks and technology firms. Their customers are now left without power and other crucial services, in part because the companies did not take action and make the investments necessary to better protect themselves from these cyberattacks.

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"CBS4 spoke to IU Bloomington Cyber Security Program Chair Scott Shackelford about what it now means for you when you're browsing online.

Shackelford said those companies can access information like your browsing habits, but also dates important to you, like your birthday. Those details can be sold where companies would use that data to develop advertising and marketing trends.

""If you speak with policymakers and technical specialists about cybersecurity, they often speak about similar problems but use totally different languages," said Scott Shackelford, associate professor of business law and ethics at IU's Kelley School of Business and director of the Ostrom Workshop Program on Cybersecurity and Internet Governance.

"On the third floor of The Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis building, nestled in the corner at the end of a hallway in, sits a room, devoid of clutter and noise, with vibrantly patterned carpeting. This is where professor Scott Shackelford directs his new program, Governance of Internet and Cybersecurity.

"“Our decision to conclude the litigation was based solely on the fact that, with the recent assistance of a third party, we are now able to unlock that iPhone without compromising any information on the phone,” U.S.

"Similarly, Scott Shackelford, an associate professor of business law and ethics at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business and senior fellow at the IU Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research, has spent his sabbatical from IU this semester working as a cybersecurity research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School and researching voter fraud methods in the U.S. and around the world.

Shackelford’s fellowship research has focused on five major ways to manipulate the outcome of an election electronically.